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G.A.A. new work:

Face 2 Vase

OLDEST ARCHIVES:

OBJECTS: 2010 SHOW AT INTERNATIONAL GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART ANCHORAGE ALASKA:

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ARTIST STATEMENT/DESCRIPTION OF WORK

I make art
because I feel a need to show what I see when I look at something, and I
haven’t come across anything like what I see.

Several
years ago a mentor sent me some recycled aluminum plates. That conversion, from simple paper to
reinforced paper, made my large, sturdy works possible. After adhering the paper or canvas to the
metal, I paint the canvas and then attach it, usually with screws, to wooden
frames. If the piece needs it, I affix
actual objects to the canvas. I often
bend and contort the metal before securing it to the frame.

Each piece
of my current work depicts an object or objects found around Kodiak Island’s
coastline. Each beach has its own type
of flotsam. One will tend to spit out
Japanese cans, the other American and Russian bits of plastic. The unpredictable changes each object goes
through, and their uncharted history, compare to the experience of being human. Each individual has been marked by its
past. We all have been set awash on
foreign shores. We have all been marked,
whether it shows outside or grows on the inside.

such as....plastic eaten by ocean organisms. A piece of boat

worn smooth by the waves. What are their stories?

Where are they from? What do they mean for our future?

And simply.... the beauty of it all.

The following objects were mounted on the wall in my IGCA show 2010 as part of one piece. Other artworks from that show are in older posts. I painted the objects in these 2 works in pastel colors to mimic Kodiak Island's Aleutian home colors and foreign plastic beach found object colors.

Thank you Julie Decker of IGCA for supporting my application to show at the International Gallery, and congratulations on your large grants to host an invitational show and artists' funds for exploring Kodiak area coastlines, culminating in a show at the Anchorage Museum entitled Gyre:

Quote from my show's (entitled Objects) non publicized application to IGCA: EACH BEACH HAS ITS OWN TYPE OF FLOTSAM. ONE WILL TEND TO SPIT OUT JAPANESE CANS, THE OTHER AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN BITS OF PLASTIC.

RESULTS of July 2010 Show

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Artist contact info:

visiblegap@chiniak.net

pob 5611Chiniak AK99615

Visible Gap

Steve Mcpherson: Artist & Lecturer

"These discarded items, wave worn and sun bleached are arranged sometimes by colour and sometimes by other specific taxonomies, thus using the new works again to reveal in subtle ways through the use of text, content and aesthetics, that truth, history and information are questionable and relative to our perception and use of it."